Your future platform for .NET development

Sense/Net 6.0 as a platform can be used:

To integrate all current web applications into a single platform

To unify the look-and-feel (a.k.a. User Interface) of all web applications and thus shorten the learning curve

To manage all web applications from a single administrative interface

To provide the same security layer for each web application

To be the single platform of future Enterprise web application development

To utilize all past .NET-based investments but receive the benefit of open source

Features which enable this are:

Robust Content Repository: a central repository to store all objects of the organization. In this case, all users, content and web applications are considered as objects. This is the backbone of the organization, into which everything is connected and managed centrally. Content has permission settings, custom metadata, workflows, actions and other things that ensure its consistent handling. It can be part of an applications, an application itself, an uploaded document, a web page, etc. Content query and search is based on Lucene.NET.
Unified User Interface: all web applications share the same style, button set and user interface logic to ensure a homogeneous look-and-feel. All future development can use the provided style set, while existing applications can (and should) be modified to also use the same set, while integrating seamlessly with the UI.
Smart Application Model: with the help of the Smart Application Model, there’s no need for development at the display layer. All you need to deal with is content - and nearly all objects are considered content: data, users, portlets, documents, text. Every piece of content can serve itself, and can be referenced by a valid, search-friendly URL. The mode of serving is very easy to customize and can meet all possible requirements. The display itself can vary from site to site. Bottom line: to build a site, you first define content, and then pages to display that content.
Open Source, .NET: being open source gives you all the infinite possibilities of not limiting yourself to a proprietary ECMS engine. You can modify anything, or add additional modules where necessary.NET gives you enterprise scalability, access to the very latest enterprise developments, and a professional toolset that makes development extremely fast and effective. Also, you can continue to leverage your existing Visual Studio, Microsoft, and other technology investments.

List of Infrastructural Capabilities

AD Authentication	Users can authenticate against Active Directory when logging in to the system.
AD Synchronization	Sense/Net can sync with Active Directories - including OU, Group and User. Synchronization can be two-way, so when somebody modifies his profile (eg. Title) in Sense/Net, it can be sync'd back to AD.
Built-in groups	Sense/Net has many built-in groups with pre-set settings: visitor, everyone, administrator, etc. These are pre-set groups to ease the initial working steps with Sense/Net.
Caching	In Sense/Net it is possible to cache data or information only while the request is being processed independent of the component, server control, or page.
CAPTCHA control	It is possible to create submit forms (eg. Registration, survey, poll, comment) with CAPTCHA control to avoid spamming, phishing or any other malicious user behaviour.
Content Repository	Content Repository is the storage layer of Sense/Net. It is the container of Content - individual blocks of information or data; and also provides the service layer to manipulate (add, copy, move, delete) Content. It is permission-based, like everything in the system.
Content-picker	Whatever the scenario, it is possible to reference any content within any content or part of the portal easily. The content picker is an intelligent, search-enabled tool to select and reference the right piece of content to the right place.
Debug	Sense/Net is very easy to debug with standard Visual Studio tools.
Developer-friendly	Sense/Net is an open source product with strong documentation, trainings, examples and community. We do all to support professional and hobby developers as well, enabling them to create the application and site they want.
Documentation	Sense/Net has full documentation available at http://wiki.sensenet.com .
Easy install/deployment/restore	Sense/Net is very easy to deploy. With the Web Deployment Toolkit it takes about 10 clicks and 5 minutes.
Export/import tools	Sense/Net has import and export tools, which can be used in many ways. Firstly, it is possible to migrate content between two Sense/Net instances. Secondly, they can import content from other systems. Thirdly, they can be used to safely backup content to a standard, XML format.
Forms-based authentication	Without AD integration, users are authenticated against Sense/Net's own identity management module.
High availability	High availability deployments of Sense/Net makes it possible to ensure maximum availability and minimum downtime. There can be failover clusters, hot swap copies, etc.
Jquery based UI	Sense/Net's UI is Jquery-based, so developers and builders can leverage standard knowledge to create skins and sites.
Load-balancing	Sense/Net deployments can be load-balanced to ensure the right response time and adequate server performance.
Logging	If set, Sense/Net logs everything it does into the standard Event Logger utility of Windows Server, thus smoothing into the standard operating environment of the servers.
Permissions	A content can have many permissions, including user or group-level allowance or prohibition and the level of permission for a given user or group (edit, save, remove, check-in etc.). Permissions are inherited through the structure, they can be cut at any point plus they can be made whole again later. There is explicit deny and allow setting, making it easy to create strong security sites.
Proxy purge portlet	This Portlet is designed to purge URLs immediately from the proxy cache. It uses a configurable algorithm to collect the URL list for a particular content that needs to be sent to the proxy for purging.
Proxy support	In order to be able to setup a portal behind proxy server(s) Sense/Net provides some configuration settings to fine-adjust behavior of response for content requests. Sense/Net supports proxy configuration by indicating cached and unmodified content in response headers. This way if a browser requests ie. an image, a proxy is allowed to serve the request and it will not get to the web server
Purge From Proxy action	The Purge From Proxy Action is for editors who want to remove the dependencies of a specific content or page from the proxy cache.
Security	Sense/Net implements a very strong security model on content level. It is possible to create very tight settings, making a virtually impenetrable site.
Standards	Sense/Net follows Internet standards, such as CSS, HTML, JS, XML.
Web Parts	Sense/Net is built on the Web Part Infrastructure.
XSLT, ASCX	Content views can be created both in XSLT and ASCX, giving the freedom of choice to portal builders.

Search Functions

Index the Content Repository	The entire content repository is indexed - full text and meta-data as well. Since the essence of Sense/Net is querying and searching, it is a very quick and efficient indexing.
Document types	All popular document types (MS Office, PDF, etc.) are indexed in Sense/Net and thus are searchable.
Search portlet	Search results can be "forwarded" to portlets, which can display them with custom formatting. Also it is possible to create custom search portlets which query only part of the Content hierarchy or operate with some pre-set settings.
Queries	All content in Sense/Net can be queried, displaying the results with a custom view (as a list, as a catalogue, as a news section, etc). Listings pages, product catalogues, news portals and other such sites are very easy to implement this way.
Full text search	The full content of all managed contents (including documents) is searchable.

Sense/Net

Your future platform for .NET development

List of Infrastructural Capabilities

Search Functions

Document Management

Workspace-based Collaboration

Business Process Management

Web Content Management

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